Interagency Reports
- Toward a Research Agenda for Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Federal Surveys: Findings, Recommendations, and Next Steps, 2016
(4.0 MB)
This is the third working paper authored by the Federal Interagency Working Group on Improving Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI). It proposes a research agenda to address unresolved conceptual and methodological topics that currently impede robust survey measurement in this area.
- Evaluations of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Survey Measures: What Have We Learned?, 2016 (10.0 MB)
This is the second working paper authored by the Federal Interagency Working Group on Improving Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI). This paper reviews evaluations of questionnaire measurement.
- Current Measures of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Federal Surveys, 2016 (8.0 MB)
This is the first working paper in a series authored by the Federal Interagency Working Group on Improving Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI). It describes how the concepts of sexual orientation and gender identity are currently measured in U.S. Federal surveys.
- Improved Measurement of Household Relationships in Federal Surveys: Measuring Same-Sex Co-Residential Relationships, 2014 (12.0 MB)
This working paper summarizes the initial work of the Interagency Working Group on Measuring Relationships in Federal Household Surveys, which has focused on the measurement of same?sex married and unmarried couples living in the same household. It addresses the measurement of household relationships, the use of these data, as well as the development and initial testing of new measures for household relationships in Federal surveys.
- Data Quality Assessment Tool for Administrative Data, 2013 (Statistical Policy WP 46) (5.6 MB)
This interagency report provides a tool which is specifically designed to assess the quality characteristics of an administrative data source.
- Profiles in Success of Statistical Uses of Administrative Data , 2009 (Statistical Policy WP 45) (3.5 MB)
This interagency report conveys lessons that can help facilitate future data-sharing agreements involving the statistical use of administrative data.
- Response Rate Summit: Summary Report, 2002 (Statistical Policy WP 44) (2.6 MB)
This summit was sponsored by the Census Bureau and the Interagency Household Survey Nonresponse Group, a subcommittee of the Federal Committee on Survey Methodology.
